


-3' 






<t " 



-^^0^ 






.* 



4 o^ 



-^-0^ 

.•^q. 



l'^ 



-* • V; ■^--.<'" 



• • o ^ ''^ 









.0^ 



r* A' -?-^ 



> V 






4 '^ <<> 



'\ 















i'- 



• o V ' . -^ • * 









°^ 









v^ * 



> V 



j.-^ o » " • - •':^ o^ 



,-1^^ 









); 







^o 








• ' >^^ . 






0- , 

ft 




^%. 




>■ % 




9^ 


%.■ 






'..*^ 








^ « S . "'<>.^ p,"v 












A^ 


31 '-' 




•> 


^j>. ,<i' 





..<• ''<^ 



3 






O ,^-, 



> 






-J. 






cs 

1 



1034. 




\ 



GENEALOGY 



Family of 

HAWLEY 
Colonial Families of America 
Compiled by Frances !!. Smith. 



Date n . d . 



1919 





Class _W. 



Book— 






<^Ua-. t/7 




^i: 



COLONIAL FAMILIES OF AMERICA 

BY ELEAXOR LEXINGTON 

Sevon vohimos. 12nio., cloth; each volume illus- 
trated by a l'rontis])iece and forty or more C'oats-of- 
Arms. 

Eacli volume contains historical sketches of forty 
American families, each sketch illustrated by at least 
one Coat-of-Arms, and occasionally liy two. 'i'^e 
main ]ioiiits covered in these family sketches are: 
(1) the origin of the family surname; (2) some ac- 
count of the early history of the family in ]'hiro])e; 
(3) the dill'ercnt American families of the same name, 
with accounts of tlir immigrant-founders and of some 
of their descendants; (4) members of the family who 
have figured ])r(uninently in Colonial times; (o) lu'v- 
olutionary soldiers: and (G) Coats-of-Arms. 

Since the two hundred and eighty families treated 
in thia series of seven volumes bear names which are 
widespread (for e\am]ile. th(> sixty "common names of 
tlu' world," as enumerated by Lower, are all included 
in tlie list), there are few Anu'ricans of Colonial stock 
who will not discover, as they trace out their lines of 
descent, that at least ten or twenty of their ancestral 
famili(s ha\e lieen included in these books. 

The volumes are sold singly or in sets. Price, jier 
volume, $"2,00; carriage, 10 cents. Price, per set of 
seven volumes, $10; carriage, 7*^ cents. The sketch 
of each family, jirinted by itself, with Coat-of-.Vrms, 
and bound in paper cover. $1.<mi: iwo copies, $1.50; 
three copies, $"2.00; five co])ies, $3.00; ten copies. 
$:).()(); twenty-five copies. $10.00. 

Any |iurcliaser of the sketch of a single family for 
$1.00 may ])urchaso the volume containing this sketch 
by the jiayment of $1.00 additional, jdus the cost of 
carriage; or nuiy jmrchase the set for $n.OO. pins; thc^ 
cost of carriage. 

The families treated in ibe several volumes of the 
series \\ill be found listed on the inside back covr. 



HAWLEY FAMILY 



'\ 






CS71 




Qasipf^Y 



HAWLEY FAMILY 

History Begins with Walter de Hauleigh, Four- 
teenth Century — One Accompanied His Mon- 
arch AT Field of Cloth of Gold — Was Made 
King of Arms. 

A green plat in a valley, in the North of England, is 
called a haw; in Scotland, a small bit of ground, a 
haugh. Ley, leaz and lea are old Saxon words for a 
field or sward. 

Some one, once upon a time, or before time was, the 
knowing ones tell us, lived in a small green field. He 
had no surname, no one had, but, assuming airs — per- 
haps he had inherited some money — he chose a name. 
What more appropriate than haw-leaz — or, if a Scots- 
man, haugh-leaz, or lea? His friends and neighbors 
were requested to address him as Mr. Haugh-Leaz — "a 
hyphen, if you please." 

The name looks well — quite imposing, indeed. But 
friends and neighbors — especially friends — sometimes 
feel called upon to discipline you for your good. 
"Haugh-Leaz, Esq.," was too grand; the name might 
engender pride. So they wrote him down Hauleigh, or 
Hawles, or Haylea, or Haley, or Haulley, or Haylea, 
finally arriving at Hawley. The name has also ap- 
peared in old documents as de la Haye, and de la Hagh. 
This means "of the hedge," or, freely rendered, living 
near a hedge. This may have been the first form of 
Hawley. Hay, haye, or have, are old Saxon for hedge. 
Names perhaps derived from this root are Hay, Hayes, 
Ha}Ties, Hawes, Haworth, Hawton, Haywood, Hay- 
ward, Hewood, Hayland, Eoundhay, and Lyndshay. 

Chaucer used haw-haw for a farmyard, and church- 
hawe is church-yard. 

In Kent there is a village named Hayeleigh, and we 
find seats of the Hawlevs in Kent — Leybourne Grange 

5 



6 COLONIAL FAMILIES OF AMERICA 

— as well as in Somerset and Derbyshire. The home in 
Kent is near that of the nobleman who had the fol- 
lowing ambiguous notice posted up : 

"Notice is hereby given that the Marquis of Camden 
(on account of the backwardness of the harvest) will 
not shoot himself nor any of his tenants till the 14th 
of September." 

Walter de Hauleigh is the first of the Hawley family 
of whom record is preserved, and of him we know but 
little. He was member of Parliament in the year of 
grace 1377. 

Thomas Hawley, messenger of the bedchamber to 
Henry VIIL, was with that monarch at the Field of the 
Cloth of Gold. He was appointed king of arms and 
herald, with the title, Clarenceux King of Arms. His 
heraldic Visitation of Essex, Surrey, and Hampshire, 
or a copy, is in the British Museum. 

Sir Francis Hawley raised a troop of horse, at his 
own expense, for Charles I., who created him a baronet 
■ — Baron Hawley. Henry C. Hawley, brigadier-general, 
was second in command of cavalry at Fontenoy in 1745, 
succeeding to the command upon the death of the su- 
perior officer. He was in command at Ghent, and, 
according to Horace Walpole, frightened the magis- 
trates out of their wits by kicking downstairs a mes- 
senger sent with a bribe. In his will, which is an 
eccentric one, he asks for a funeral without ostentation. 
"I will have no show any more than if a poor soldier. 
Written Avith my own hand, because I have a poor 
opinion of the law." Benjamin Hawley was aide to 
Lord Hill at Waterloo. 

The Hawleys have always loved books, many being 
veritable bookworms. There Avas Sir Joseph Hawley, 
born in 1813, a noted turfman, who won many a race 
with his thoroughbreds. He was devoted to books, and 
left the most valuable library in Kent. The Shake- 
speare scholar and librarian of the memorable library 
at Stratford-on-Avon was Frederick Hawley, born 1827. 
He made a catalogue of all the known editions of 



HAWLEY FAMILY 7 

Shakespeare's plays in every language — the most com- 
plete catalogue in existence. 

Joseph Hawley, of Derbyshire, in 1629 started out 
to seek his fortune in the New World. He settled in 
Stratford, Conn., where he held the office of Town Clerk 
and Treasurer, which office proved no sinecure, for 
taxes were paid in wheat, peas, Indian corn, and the 
like, which the collector must store, sell, or deliver for 
shipment to distant markets. He was one of a com- 
mittee to draft a patent, which is still preserved, signed 
by Governor Robert Treat. Another forefather in 
Stratford was Samuel. He may have been the son of 
James Hawley, of Brentford, born 1558, for some of 
the latter's children were settlers here. Hawley, Mass., 
and Hawleyville, Conn., were thus named in honor of a 
forefather. Another pilgrim was Thomas, who came 
from Derbyshire, in 1650, to Roxbury, Mass. 

Patriots the Hawleys have always been, willing, when 
necessary, to pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their 
sacred honors. True to their flag, they have fought hard 
in time of war. Gideon Hawley, of Connecticut, was 
chaplain in the French and Indian war. David, Na- 
than, and Abraham were in the Revolution. The chair- 
man of the Massachusetts committee, sent to the Pro- 
vincial Congress, 1774, was Joseph Hawley of North- 
ampton. 

General Joseph Roswell Hawley, a member of the 
Southern branch of the family, and born in North 
Carolina, removed to Hartford, Conn., and was Gover- 
nor of that State. The meeting for the organization of 
the Republican party was held in his office, at his call, 
February 4, 1856. He was a believer in the American 
people and the "American way.'' 

Family tradition gives us much interesting data. 
There is the account of the marriage of Nathan Haw- 
ley, of Stratford, and Silence Mallory. Wedding cere- 
monies lasted several days, with dances and feasting 
and much merr}Tnaking. When Nathan and Silence 
wished to entertain their friends in their new home. 



8 COLOXIAL FAMILIES OF AMERICA 

that they might not incur a fine in case the guesta 
remained after nine o'clock, they obtained permission 
for their party from a town officer. Xo one was allowed 
to entertain company after nine in the evening. Part 
of the frolic of a wedding celebration was to bar the 
pathway of the newly married, when they wended their 
way to their new home. Obstacles of various kinds 
were placed in their path; trees were sometimes felled, 
or grapevines tied across the road. 

The arms reproduced, that of Thomas, of Eoxbury, 
are : A^ert, a saltire or St. Andrew^s cross, engrailed, 
argent. 

Crest: A dexter arm in armor, proper, garnished or, 
holding in the hand a spear, in bend, sinister, point 
downward, also proper. 

Motto : Suivez moi — "Follow me." Et suivez moi is 
used as one Hawley motto. These are the arms of the 
present owner of Leybourne Grange, Kent. The crest 
of the Hawleys of County Hants, England, is a winged 
thunderbolt. This family is descended from Francis, 
Lord Hawley, so created in the seventeenth century. 
One member was Robert, who married Susan, daughter 
of Lord Save and Sele. 

Regarding the s\^nbolism of the arms reproduced, a 
saltire denotes resolution; engrailed signifies land or 
earth; an arm in armor, one fitted for performance of 
high enterprises; the spear was bestowed only upon a 
valiant soldier, and is emblematic of knightly service 
and devotion to honor. 





COLONIAL 


FA.AVILIES 
VOLUME 


OF AMERICA 
I. 




Bacon 


Cary 


Freeman 


Merritt 


Sewall 


Bailey 


Conway 


Goodridge 


Miner 


Smith 


lialdwlQ 


1 )i(kinson 


C.rimth 


Montgomery 


Todd 


Hall 


Dubois 


Hawley 


Osgood 


Wallace 


Bancroft 


Edwards 


1 lorton 


Bhillips 


Wendell 


Bradford 


Field 


Loomis 


Head 


Wilson 


Brooks 


Fisher 


Manning 


Roosevelt 


Winslow 


Brown 


Fox 


Martin 
VOLUME 


Savage 
11. 


Wright 


Adams 


Cooper 


Hayes 


Page 


Taylor 


Anderson 


Daniel 


Hubbard 


Parker 


Tracy 


Ballou 


Draper 


Jennings 


Perkins 


Walker 


Booth 


Eliot 


Jones 


Putnam 


Walworth 


Briggs 


Fairbanks 


Lapham 


Rawson 


Washington 


Cabell 


French 


Morgan 


Roberts 


Welles 


Clapp 


fiilbert 


Xeale 


Robinson 


Wheeler 


Clendenin 


Hatch 


Neville 
VOLUME 


Sinclair 

in. 


Woodhouse 


Alexander 


Cooke 


Goode 


Knox 


Sharp 


Barker 


Cushman 


Graham 


Law^son 


Stevens 


Harrington 


Davis 


Hart 


Maxwell 


St. John 


Heardsley 


Downing 


Hill 


Osborne 


Thomas 


Branch 


Eaton 


I lolines 


Pecry 


Tompkins 


Cannon 


Pit/.liugh 


Howe 


Rockwell 


Valentine 


Chapman 


Franklin 


Jenkins 


Ropers 


Williams 


Child 


Gi fiord 


King 
VOLUME 


Saunders 
IV. 


Young 


Barton 


Courtenay 


Hammond 


Luce 


Ross 


Bass 


Cox 


Harris 


Mann 


Shannon 


Bates 


Fletcher 


Heiskell 


Marshall 


Stark 


Bird 


Godfrey 


Henderson 


McDonald 


Thompson 


Blake 


Grant 


Hoskins 


More 


Tuttle 


Chase 


Graves 


Ives 


Morrison 


Wade 


Clark 


Green 


Jackson 


Pope 


Wetmore 


Cole 


Hall 


Knight 
VOLUME 


Preston 
V. 


Wood 


Abell 


Goodwin 


Kendall 


Morris 


Proctor 


Barnes 


Gray 


Lamb 


Morse 


Richardson 


Bassett 


Hamer 


Landen 


Moultrie 


Ridley 


Bennett 


Hamilton 


Langford 


N'ewhouse 


Russell 


Carter 


Hamlin 


Lee 


Newport 


Scott 


Digges 


Hull 


McCormick 


Oakes 


Staples 


Fay 


Hume 


Merryman 


Parsons 


Tilton 


Fuller 


Kearns 


Mitchell 
VOLUME 


Pratt 
VI. 


Watson 


Austin 


Cathcart 


Gardiner 


Marsh 


Shaw- 


Bernard 


Christian 


Hoyt 


McAllister 


Simpson 


Bliss 


Crane 


Hunt 


Meade 


Sprague 


Borden 


Curtis 


Jessup 


Odell 


Turner 


Breeden 


Douglas 


Lamprey 


Pease 


Ward 


Brodie 


Dudley 


Lawrence 


Reynolds 


Webster 


Butler 


Fleming 


Lewis 


Richards 


White 


Campbell 


Foster 


Madison 


Ryan 


Whitney 






VOLUME VII. 




Allen 


Carpenter 


Flournoy 


Law- 


Porter 


Andrews 


Chambers 


Fowkr 


Lloyd 


Price 


Anthony 


Cumming 


Ho[)kins 


Lucas 


Sherman 


Baker 


Cunningham 


Hughes 


Mason 


Stone 


Bartholomew 


Davies 


Humphrey 


Moore 


Tait 


Belcher 


Drake 


James 


Morton 


Warren 


Benton 


Ely 


Johnson 


Palmer 


Witherspoon 


Boone 


Evans 


Lano 


Piert-f} 


fuiiie(Ew-ell) 



ANCESTRY TRACED 

HERALDIC RESEARCH 

GENEALOGIES PRINTED 

AND PUBLISHED 

COATS OF ARMS EMBLAZONED 

FRANK ALLABEN 
GENEALOGICAL COMPANY 

Three West Forty-Second Street 
New York 



Persnim iiitcrcstcd in families tchich mipht appropriatrlp he in 
eluded in futurr volumes of Colonial Families of Ameriea are in- 
vited to eorrespoiHl with the Publishers. 



W ^23 79 



■^'<./y*■ 









^^j3i5->- .t:--,.-- 






0^' ; 






• 



r'.- 



c 



1. if 






-A 






*. ^^ 






■"r.%^' 



'» 



.'i' ,. " o • <J>. 






-^^0^ 

H^^ 






^ 



o V 



^. 



\^ 






a- 












«' 









C 



0' 



. t ' » 



o 












0^ . 






bv' 



*.° 


"t. ■- 








"^^ 


«- 


"■t.--' 




<5> 




» 1 ■> 


1^ 1 


•o. ^;> 






. (?. 


..^.l.-o 


•^. 





•1 o. 



o 



v^ 



\^ 



^ 



V 



A 



V 










A 






* ,^- 














^o 


V^ 




^0 


"^.. 






^^. 



\A 



<* 


^^ ■ • 


.'^ 


• 


% 




\'. 


"-^ 


0^ 


// 




°^ 


^ 





<o 



C 










o 



-■"5' , • • o. 



>^^ 



Ji 



0^ ^^ >^ .V ^o 






■^o'- ,0' 



-J w 






¥. 









?>^-^^ 






> 




^^ btfT '/9 



WjL^/jr N. MANCHESTER. 
INDIANA 46962 



